Asmisapyga Kurzenko, 1994

Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2025, First contribution to the sapygid wasps (Hymenoptera: Sapyginae) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the description species, Journal of Natural History 59 (33 - 36), pp. 2235-2250 : 2236-2243

Genus Asmisapyga Kurzenko in Kurzenko & Gusenleitner, 1994

Asmisapyga Kurzenko, 1994 in Kurzenko & Gusenleitner, 1994: 586. Type species: Asmisapyga Kurzenko, 1994 , by original designation.

HISTORY

Description

Female (Figures 1‒3). Body length (excluding sting): 7.5‒7.8 mm.

Head. Clypeus 1.30‒1.38× as wide as its middle length, narrowly notched at apex, with two small medially, with close setigerous deep punctures, punctures confluent longitudinally (Figure 1C, D densely, closely deeply punctate (becoming sparser just behind middle ocellus to vertex) (Figure mandible tridendate apically, teeth subequal, sharply pointed at apices (Figure 1D); antenna shorter than body (Figure 1A), F9 about as long as wide, last flagellomere 1.35× as long as wide (

HISTORY

HISTORY

Metasoma. T 1‒4 densely punctate, punctures more pronounced along the whitish bands on T 3 (Figure 3B); T 5 and T 6 sparsely punctate (Figure 3B); S 1‑3 with dense confluent punctures, becoming sparser on rest of sternites (Figure 3C).

Colouration. Generally black, with the following parts yellow: spot inside eye emargination (Figure apico-lateral part of clypeus (Figure 1D); a transverse stripe between antennal toruli (Figure 1C), tum antero-laterally ( Figure 2A, B ); a broad whitish band on apex of T 3 (constricted medially) (narrower and constricted medially), a very small (indistinct) spot postero-laterally on T 5 (Figure a broad band on S 3 posteriorly (interrupted posteriorly), four spots preapically on S 4 (absent in

HISTORY femora dark brown to black, remaining parts red (Figure 1B); wings pale brown, with radial cell veins brown (except veins C, SC+R, M+Cu, RS, 2 r, and stigma are deep dark brown) (Figure 3A)

Male (Figures 4‒6). Body length: 6.8 mm.

Resembles the female except for the presence of a broad yellow band on S 4 posteriorly, which is interrupted medially (Figure 6C) (in some female specimens, four small, rounded spots can be seen posterior margin of S 4 (Figure 3C)); F2‒11 each with a thin lateral carina; fore and hind wings less dark female (Figure 6A).

Male genitalia ( Figure 10A, B ). Genital capsule 1.2× as long as wide; with a well-developed basal aedeagus completely, but narrowly, separated medially; pennis valve (PV) with three saw-like short externally; parameres (P) in dorsal aspect flattened, with outer margins straight, parallel, meeting above in middle, then narrowly separated ventrally, acutely pointed postero-laterally; parameral wide and flat, narrowly rounded at apex, sparsely setose; cuspis (Cu) well-separated from each other each in the form of a broad rounded sac apically, densely covered with fine pale setae mainly on the hook-like structure above, directed towards each other; digitus slender, finger-like, distinctly shorter and longer than Cu and PV, with fine pale setae.

Material examined

3♀♀, Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, Thadiq, Shoaib Safrat Park [25.269328 N, 46.029551E, Alt. 731 m], 30 .

SW, leg . Ahmed M . Soliman [ KSMA]; 1♂, same data as previous but different for collection date, 9 . [ KSMA].

Distribution

Egypt ( Gusenleitner 1997), Israel, United Arab Emirates ( Schmid-Egger 2010), Morocco (Gusenleitner Saudi Arabia (new record).

Comments

Our female specimens agree well with Gusenleitner’s description of the Moroccan females (

1996, p. 30) except for the following: the colour pattern of the body is white, unlike the yellow Moroccan specimens; the presence of small, rounded spots on posterolateral sides of T 5 (Figure 3B),

spots along the posterior margin of S 4 in some female specimens (Figure 3C) (absent in Moroccan

They also resemble the female specimen of the United Arab Emirates ( Schmid-Egger 2010, p. 480),

the following: clypeus predominately black, with two large yellow red markings apico-laterally (Figure UAE specimen, clypeus predominantly yellow, with large black spot medially); T 2 entirely black (Figure UAE specimen T 2 with a lateral spot). In our male, pronotum with anterior band of yellow, widely medially (Figure 6B) (in UAE male, pronotum with a large pale band); T 2 entirely black (Figure 6B) male, T 2 with lateral spots); head and pronotum with dense punctures, with small interspaces punctures (Figure 4C) (in UEA male, punctures sparser, with large shiny interspaces).

The male specimen collected during the present study shows a teratology deformation on pronotum

Figures

Figure 2. Asmisapyga guichardi Gusenleitner (♀). (A) Dorsal view of head and mesosoma, (B) lateral view of mesosoma.

Figure 10. Male genitalia of Asmisapyga guichardi Gusenleitner (A, B) and Sapygina (Sapygella) saudica Soliman Gadallah sp. n. (C, D). (A, C) Dorsal view, (B, D) ventral view.